Traditional Christmas Cake
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Anyone have a traditional cake for Christmas? Or have recipe for one to share?
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My mom spent the weeks preceding Christmas in the kitchen. She'd make a half dozen fruit cakes only they weren't a cake as you'd know it. Or like you buy in the round tin at the drugstore at the last minute on Christmas Eve. More like a huge raisin cinnamon roll. It was braided bread with frosting and candied "fruit" - red, yellow, and green - inside. About a foot long. I picked out the fruit. Little sticky pieces of green fruit under my fingernails.
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My great aunt would always buy a fruit cake...it was dark and tasted burnt...but we had to have some...it was like jello mold and green bean casserole, part of the meal, so we had to eat some...nasty
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I truly miss being able to eat Collins Street Bakery fruitcake. The carb count in it will lock up my neck and back solid.
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No cake.
Our Christmas tradition is New England Clam Chowder.
My father used to make it for all of the traveling families who arrived the night before family Christmas. Local family would show up for dinner to visit too.
Now I have my own brood, and I'm in charge of the clan Clam Chowder.
Our Christmas tradition is New England Clam Chowder.
My father used to make it for all of the traveling families who arrived the night before family Christmas. Local family would show up for dinner to visit too.
Now I have my own brood, and I'm in charge of the clan Clam Chowder.
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Cake has never been a part of our Christmas Traditions. I don’t see fruitcake as cake, but even if you do, we only occasionally had it.
We’re pie and odd jello salad people.
We’re pie and odd jello salad people.
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Not really a big cake family outside of birthdays. The traditional dessert that adorned our Christmas table growing up was our mom's preach cobbler. Alas, it has been a while since I've seen the dish, as mom has been gluten free for a decade.
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I did find these, although not cakes.
Stir-up pie ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stir-up_Sunday
And, Mince Pie ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mince_pie
I remember mince meat pies being in the mix at the Christmas gatherings of my childhood. I hadn't seen or even heard of one in many years, until a British co-worker gifted me a box of mini mince meat pies that he purchased in London at Harrods. They were delicious with coffee.
I suppose that there is no substitute for fruit cake as the traditional Christmas cake. I made 8 this year, one each for myself and my 5 siblings, plus one for our oldest daughter, and one for a good friend of mine in Charleston SC. These cakes plus a batch of bourbon balls, and a toddy or two on the side, pretty much emptied a 750 ml bottle of WT101.
Stir-up pie ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stir-up_Sunday
And, Mince Pie ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mince_pie
I remember mince meat pies being in the mix at the Christmas gatherings of my childhood. I hadn't seen or even heard of one in many years, until a British co-worker gifted me a box of mini mince meat pies that he purchased in London at Harrods. They were delicious with coffee.
I suppose that there is no substitute for fruit cake as the traditional Christmas cake. I made 8 this year, one each for myself and my 5 siblings, plus one for our oldest daughter, and one for a good friend of mine in Charleston SC. These cakes plus a batch of bourbon balls, and a toddy or two on the side, pretty much emptied a 750 ml bottle of WT101.
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I have an Arab-English friend who makes a killer mince pie. I hoard them. The rest of my family just consumes them, but without relish. If you're going to eat something special...yeah. They're mine.
As for fruitcake, I have eaten many substances that were almost but not quite entirely unlike fruitcake since my great-grandmother died. I've been on a quest for years.
As for fruitcake, I have eaten many substances that were almost but not quite entirely unlike fruitcake since my great-grandmother died. I've been on a quest for years.
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The Japanese - who like to celebrate Christmas even though they're mostly not Christians, kinda like Americans - enjoy a white Christmas cake with strawberries on top and maybe even inside. My host at the time I was there didn't know the significance of the strawberries. Much like I can't say why in the world fruitcakes became tradition here.
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